CTO) medical director. Cho will be responsible for overseeing the
UH Cancer Center’s clinical trials administered through
CTO. He has been a faculty member of the
UH Cancer Center since 1991, and has served the people of Hawaiʻi as a local oncologist for more than 29 years. Since 2016, the
UH Cancer Center has enrolled more than 16,000 patients in clinical trials in Hawaiʻi.
Cho is no stranger to clinical trials in Hawaiʻi, having been a strong advocate for clinical trials and enrolling many patients on
UH Cancer Center trials as a leading community oncologist. He led the
UH Cancer Center’s
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Men who are overweight and have low testosterone may benefit from following a very-low-calorie ketogenic diet, a small, preliminary study suggests. Researchers presented their findings this month at the European Congress of Endocrinology after studying the effects of the very low-carb and high-fat diet in 17 middle-age men with obesity.
Study participants shed a substantial amount of weight, helped curb their percentage of body fat, and increased their testosterone levels. “The low-calorie keto diet represents a therapeutic nutritional intervention to treat obesity with a great effect on weight loss and, consequently, on testosterone levels,” says one of the authors of the study, Angelo Cignarelli, MD, PhD, of the section of internal medicine, endocrinology, andrology, and metabolic diseases at the University of Bari Aldo Moro in Italy.
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/PRNewswire/ Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) is proud to announce Dr. Edward Juhn as their new Chief Quality Officer. In this role, Dr. Juhn will partner.
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POTSDAM Two new hospitalists have joined St. Lawrence Health’s medical team. Doctors Alfred Kokwaro and Kaylan Mucci will both be working at Canton-Potsdam Hospital.
Dr. Kokwaro is board certified and earned his medical degree at Ross University School of Medicine, Dominica, West Indies. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Greater Danbury Community Health Center, Connecticut Institute for Communities, Danbury, Conn., where he was chosen as Resident of the Year. During his internship at Griffin Hospital, Derby, Conn., he was awarded Intern of the Year.
Dr. Mucci is board eligible, and earned her medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Saint Maarten. She completed her internship and residency at Griffin Hospital, Derby, Conn.